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The Origin of Crisis:
By Madam Evelina Maria Bellenda:
August 21, 2006:

In my last essay I promised to address the question of what has gone wrong. I speak of our relationship to God and to other human beings. Again, I use the word God as an arbitrary handle for the spiritual mystery. It does not take any special genius to realize that mankind is in trouble. We are quickly moving toward disaster on many fronts. Even before the terrorist attacks on America there was undeniable evidence of a degeneration of our cultural cohesion. Whatever glue it was which held us together was dissolving.

As I have previously said, I believe that glue was our mythical roots. Very simply, we have lost our faith. At the same time that we lost our faith in God, we began to realize we were not omnipotent. We discovered that science could not solve all problems. Specifically, science cannot solve our emotional problems which result from our loss of faith.

In losing our faith, we have failed in our most important task. The task God has set man is to move toward God Awareness. I think it is important to understand that God can manifest in many ways, but only man is unique within God's universe as a special extension of his own spirit. Mans goal, set by God, is the quest for consciousness. We are instilled with an inherent longing for awareness in its most meaningful sense. To the extent we ignore that commandment, pain and suffering must ensue.

I have already addressed how the church, in its adversarial stance, undermined the foundation of its own philosophy. Science was, of course, also culpable. For the scientist, it was about pride masquerading as a quest for truth. I would like to examine that history as an extension of the myth of creation. I suspect there will be some precedent for this in the Christian bible.

As man became conscious of God's works,
so God became conscious of himself through man.
This was good.
Then God made a revelation unto man.
Becoming aware of God's works was only his first task.
Man was also to become aware of God in the essence.
Thus God set man the task of achieving God Awareness.
Man was awed by the task.
Still, on God's word, he began.
Thus, man became more and more conscious of the mighty works of God.
He became aware of his place with God.
He learned much about the nature of God's works.
He began to see behind the outward manifestations of things.
Then, as man's consciousness grew, a pride overtook him and grew in him.
He began to believe he was great in all things.
Finally, he came to believe that he alone was conscious.
He came to believe that he had no need of God.
He was sufficient unto himself so he reasoned.
He could understand and be aware of all things without God.
Then he defamed God and his mighty works.
Man was proud and poised on the brink of disaster.
Man did not understand.
Without his awareness of God, God has no need of man.
Unless man be the conscious extension of God,
man has no value to God.
Hence, in his enormous pride, man may be allowed to destroy himself.
When man abandon God, it marked the end of his growing awareness of himself.
It marked the end of his growing awareness of God.
His science became sterile.
It was a mechanical noticing of things without purpose.
God wept, for he foresaw the tragedy which awaited man.
As man disavowed God, his awareness of his own self began to diminish.
Because of his pride, man lost not only God.
He lost his connection to his inner, wiser self.
His loss was greater than could be measured.
He lost the potential to become his true self through God Awareness.
Ultimately, man diminished in consciousness.
He gave up the potential to become one with God.
He became what his science told him to be.
He became just another creature.

That is how it seems to me. The human conscious is a bubble floating on a sea of unconsciousness. The sea of unconsciousness is the infinite spiritual mystery. Therein is all power. We can draw on that infinite sea and grow more conscious. We can move toward God Awareness. For the most part, we have shunned that offer. I find that a tragedy of enormous proportions.

Most of the people I know are marginally aware and choose to remain that way. Some seem to be completely unconscious. God has made offers to all or them as he has to me. They have turned their backs in fear of knowledge. Hence, they live desperate lives, hiding from the knowledge of God and of themselves.

They live in total denial of any responsibility for their lives. They deny that what they are grows our of what they do and decline to do. They deny they are reaping what they have sown. They wish to see the universe as an incomprehensible chaos. They pretend they are not in control of what happens.

The cry of "Why me?" may be heard throughout the land. They completely disavow the responsibility to God to increase their awareness, to raise their consciousness. They ignore their responsibility to man. They wallow on the marginal edge of consciousness and pretend to greatness.

Our task, set to us by God, is to increase human consciousness. The Goal is to absorb the unconscious into the conscious. The Goal is total God Awareness wherein the human is aware of God and God, through us, is aware of his works. We have failed miserably in that.

You might well ask, "Now what?" I'll try to answer in a work next week which I will title, The Path.
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